Reply #55: You cannot prove a negative. No mature atheist ever will try to [View All]

[RaleighNCDUer]

prove there is no god.

If something exists, that existence is its own proof. Therefore, if god exists, it is incumbent upon the theists to prove he/she/it/they exists. They will, of course, never try to prove it because they rely on faith, not proof.

"God" is a force, power, or intelligence unavailable to us, and is therefore unknowable in its true form and unprovable one way or the other in any rational way.

Something like that just defines god out of existence. A god which is not anthropomophic, which is not accessible by worship or prayer, might as well not exist at all, and there are certainly no religions which define god in that way. By that definition, god could be the Big Bang - and no more important than that.